Display element drive circuit and display apparatus

Abstract

A display element drive circuit includes a first circuit which holds as a voltage component electric charges based on a gradation signal corresponding to display data, a second circuit which supplies the gradation signal to the electric charge holding circuit at a timing of application of a selection signal, current control type display elements, and a third circuit which generates a driving current based on the voltage component held in the first circuit and supplies the generated driving current to the display element. One of the second and third circuits includes at least one field effect transistor. The field effect transistor includes gate, source and drain electrodes, and a source-side parasitic capacitance formed between the gate and source electrodes and a drain-side parasitic capacitance formed between the gate and drain electrodes of the field effect transistor have different capacitance values.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from prior Japanese Patent Application No. 2004-279268, filed Sep. 27, 2004, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]The present invention relates to a display element drive circuit and a display apparatus comprising the display element drive circuit, and more particularly to a display element drive circuit which is provided in each display pixel in a display panel and drives a display element based on a driving current corresponding to a gradation signal and to a display apparatus comprising a display panel in which display pixels each having the display element drive circuit are two-dimensionally arranged.[0004]2. Description of the Related Art[0005]There has been conventionally known a self-luminous type display (a display apparatus) including a display panel in which display pixels...

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Benefits of technology

[0025]In a display apparatus provided with a display panel which has a display element and a display element drive circuit which drives the display element in a display pixel, the present invention has an advantage of improving a display image quality while suppressing occurrence of a delay of a write operation, insufficient writing, deterioration of luminance characteristics and the like due to a parasitic capacitance or a retention volume caused by a plurality of transistors constituting the display element drive circuit.

Problems solved by technology

Further, when each display pixel is miniaturized in order to achieve high definition, irregularities in operation characteristics (a current between the source and the drain or the like) of both transistors Tr111 and Tr112 constituting the display element drive circuit DCp become large.

Therefore, an appropriate gradation control cannot be performed, and irregularities are produced in light emission characteristics of each display pixel, thereby resulting in deterioration of a display image quality.

However, the display element drive circuit adopting the current application mode has the following problems.

Therefore, an operation is delayed or insufficient writing occurs, whereby the display element cannot perform the light emitting operation with an appropriate luminance gradation corresponding to display data in some cases.

Furthermore, various kinds of capacitance components existing in the display element drive circuit of the display pixel have the following problem.

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